Tag: Zheng Bijian

  • Zoellick on China: The Washington Consensus?

    President George W. Bush is expected to appoint his former deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick as head of the World Bank, replacing his former deputy secretary of defense Paul Wolfowitz. Zoellick, who says has lived in Hong Kong, in previous speeches has regarded China the way the government has. In two speeches Zoellick pushed…

  • Is Yasukuni Really out of the Picture?

    The Yasukuni Shrine may be making an exit from the rhetoric of Sino-Japanese tensions. The Chinese ambassador to Japan said in a report published yesterday that China and Japan have “finally overcome this political impediment damaging bilateral relations.” “The political stalemate has been broken,” the ambassador, Wang Yi, said in an interview with Xinhua. But…